CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organizational Communication
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A group is a unit of several people that increasingly form a team with a spirit of cooperation, positive interdependence, and commonly understood procedures. All members influence each other through social interactions: there is no conclusive data to determine an ideal group size, it is key to have diverse people within a group (not just by ethnicity, but also by. This adds great value but is also challenging. The more time pressure you have to complete a given task, the better it would be to have less diverse members. An aggregate is a collection of individuals who are present at the same time and place but do not form a unit or have a common degree of similarity (i. e. our class) Key terms organization; also known as a traditional work team. Chapter 6: these groups are predictable and efficient, as behavioural expectations are, ex. They do not implement anything, but merely present the facts.